Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. A graduate of École Polytechnique, she works as a software engineer specializing in image processing and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group.
Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. They're a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award.
Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University, graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts. In July 2018, they were hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch. Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020 and for the 2022 Deadpool series. [source](https://e...
Catherynne M. Valente is an American speculative fiction writer and poet, born May 5, 1979, in Seattle, Washington. She writes fiction that blends fairy tales and myth, in a style she has termed "mythpunk," and is known for the Fairyland series, along with novels including Deathless, Palimpsest, and Space Opera.
Charlie Jane Anders is a writer whose work often explores science fiction and fantasy themes. You might know them from their contributions to The Best of Uncanny.
Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling writer of Star Wars: PHASMA, plus Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire, The Secrets of Long Snoot, The Perfect Weapon, and Scorched; the Blud series, Servants of the Storm, the HIT series, Wake of Vultures and the Shadow series (as Lila Bowen), and a variety of short stories in anthologies such as Death & Honey, Robots vs. Fairies, Hellboy: an Assortment of Horrors, Violent Ends, Carniepunk, Three Slices, and Last Night a Superhero Saved My Life. With Ke...
Elizabeth Bear is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author whose stories often explore science fiction and fantasy. You might know her work from The Best of Uncanny, a collection showcasing some of her fantastic short fiction. She's a writer who consistently delivers imaginative and thought-provoking tales.
Hao Jingfang is a Hugo Award-winning author whose work, including the collection The Best of Uncanny, often explores science fiction and fantasy themes. Her stories are known for their imaginative scope and thoughtful exploration of complex ideas.
Kat Howard is the editor behind The Best of Uncanny, a collection showcasing fantastic speculative fiction. She has a knack for finding stories that will stick with you long after you've turned the last page.
Lynne M. Thomas is the editor behind The Best of Uncanny, a collection showcasing some of the best speculative fiction. She's a familiar name to fans of the genre, bringing a keen eye for compelling stories.
Maria Dahvana Headley is the editor of The Best of Uncanny, a collection showcasing the magazine's standout speculative fiction. She's a writer whose work often explores fantasy and the uncanny.
Mary Robinette Kowal is a Hugo and Nebula award-winning author whose work often blends science fiction and historical settings. You might know her from her collection, The Best of Uncanny, which showcases her skill in crafting compelling stories. She's a fantastic choice if you enjoy smart, character-driven speculative fiction.
Michael Damian Thomas is the editor behind The Best of Uncanny, a collection showcasing fantastic speculative fiction. He's a keen eye for stories that push boundaries and explore imaginative worlds.
Naomi Novik is an American author of fantasy and alternate history, best known for the nine-book Temeraire series — an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars fought with dragons — the Scholomance trilogy (A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, The Golden Enclaves), and the award-winning standalone novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver. She holds a degree in English literature from Brown University and a master's in computer science from Columbia University, and co-founded the Organization for Tr...
Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire) is an English writer of novels, short fiction, comics, screenplays and audio drama. He worked as a journalist before moving into comics, where his DC series The Sandman, begun in 1989, recast the title character as Morpheus, lord of dreams, and became one of the most acclaimed comics of its era. His novels include Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett, as well as Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline and The Oc...
N. K. Jemisin (born September 19, 1972, in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the Inheritance Trilogy, the Dreamblood duology, the Broken Earth trilogy and the Great Cities duology, along with numerous short stories. Her Broken Earth trilogy — The Fifth Season (2015), The Obelisk Gate (2016) and The Stone Sky (2017) — made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, and the...
Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author of urban fantasy, science fiction and horror. She writes the October Daye and InCryptid urban fantasy series and the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series under her own name, science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the children's portal fantasy "Up-and-Under" series as A. Deborah Baker. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010 and has since won multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awa...
Tran Nguyen is the author behind The Best of Uncanny, a collection that showcases some truly great reads. If you're looking for your next favorite book, Tran's work is a fantastic place to start.
Ursula Vernon is the author behind the popular collection, The Best of Uncanny. She's a writer whose work often explores fantasy and speculative fiction.